What Steven Brunton has said about Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 26, 2026

Steven Brunton, University of Washington mathematician and fluid dynamics expert, has been quoted on Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness once in 1 episode of Lex Fridman Podcast, most recently on October 26, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

Brunton says the Navier-Stokes blow-up result leaves practical fluid engineering unchanged, contrasting a million-dollar math problem with a trillion-dollar engineering problem.
“you know, we solved the million dollar math problem. There's a trillion dollar engineering problem, which is like, how do you predict these things in a fast, efficient way”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory (Oct 26, 2026) · Listen from 1:57:21

#503 – AI Crisis in Math: Navier-Stokes, Riemann Hypothesis & Complexity Theory
Lex Fridman Podcast · Oct 26, 2026 · 3 h 43 min
Lex Fridman and mathematicians Alex Kontorovich, Ankur Moitra and Steven Brunton discuss AI's claimed proofs of quasi-Riemann, Navier-Stokes, unique games and what it means for mathematics.